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Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism?
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RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism?
January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm (This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 4:20 pm by Brian37.)
(January 28, 2015 at 4:16 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Not to mention that elimination of religion (an ideological objective of the USSR) isn't "atheism", nor is confiscating and burning religious texts, supressing religious worship, or harassing/executing believers.

They didn't do any of that "in the name of atheism". They did all that because they wanted control, and the church had had it for so long they wanted to destroy it.

It had nothing to do with religion, it simply was a shift from one power monopoly to another power monopoly.
(January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: When Stalin needed morale boosters during WWII he reopened the churches, and the pews fill up quickly. When the Soviet Union collapsed people started openly worshipping in Russia. The habit is hard to kill.

Exactly, if Russians had become atheists because of Stalin all the churches would not have popped back up after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by IanHulett - January 28, 2015 at 4:06 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 4:14 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 4:21 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Gawdzilla - January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 4:33 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - February 1, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by dyresand - January 28, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 4:40 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by robvalue - January 28, 2015 at 4:32 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by robvalue - January 28, 2015 at 4:34 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Dystopia - January 28, 2015 at 4:40 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Dystopia - January 28, 2015 at 4:50 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Dystopia - January 28, 2015 at 5:08 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 28, 2015 at 5:00 pm
RE: Soviet Union wars in the name of Atheism? - by Brian37 - January 29, 2015 at 1:28 pm

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